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Buongiorno amici del Fediverso! Hello Fedi friends!

I hope you had a nice weekend.

I'm currently doing the sound mix of the Italian voice-over of my Fedi promo video.

I used to hate listening to recordings of my voice, but after endless hours of rewatching the English version and the French one, I'm now totally ok with that 😅

Routine reminder that on Friday I published the French VO of the Fedi video. It's here: news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…

Italian version coming shortly 🇮🇹

#EleFediVideos

📺 Découvrez le fédivers : une nouvelle ère pour les réseaux sociaux

Découvrez un tout nouvel univers des réseaux sociaux, où la vie privée est respectée, les utilisateurs détiennent le pouvoir et les GAFAM n'ont pas leur mot à dire.
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Are you a GitHub user who would like to support the great work NV Access does?

You can become a GitHub Sponsor!

Today, we'd like to give a shoutout to Nael-Accessvision, one of our GitHub sponsors.

You can sponsor NV Access here: github.com/sponsors/nvaccess

(Or through PayPal or bank transfer via the "Donate" link on our website)

*Donations in Australia are tax deductible*

#FOSS #FLOSS #Accessibility #NonProfit #NotForProfit #GoodCause #Donate #Donation

Sponsor @nvaccess on GitHub Sponsors

NV Access creates NVDA, the free open source Screen Reader that enables blind people to gain freedom, education & employment.
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@simon Good question - no, for someone who is already a donor via PayPal etc, there is no real reason to change. It was really just another option and when we first joined GitHub sponsors, I believe they had a promotions where they waived the fees for a year from memory. And, since we use GitHub for our code and issues ete, a lot of people who know and support us do already use that platform. We'll have to share the love around and post about a PayPal donor next time :)
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Check out this wiki radio page. It plays random files from #Wikipedia every time you press the button. monkeon.co.uk/wikiradio/

Wiki Radio 📻

The thrilling sound of random Wikimedia
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Is there any web based chess game that has bots, teaching tools and is fully screen reader accessible; i.e. allows you to move around the board with cursor keys, rather than just speaking notation? Basically WinBoard but web based. #accessibility
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@miki @vick21 Be curious what you find. The tutorials gave me trouble as well and while there are apps on iOS/Android that sorta kinda work, I've found nothing thus far that works all that well. One might argue that having the spatiality of a touch screen might actually be helpful in "visualizing" the board, but I'm not sure how fiddly that would get
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lichess is it accessible you have to turn on the screen reader mode from the top of the page. I think It is also open source so if you find something broken, you could help fix it. I use it a lot to play all kinds of games, including tournaments and find it completely accessible.
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#AudioMo day 19: Sorry for my absence, we were on vacation but unfortunately didn't get the chance to really record anything to put here. So now I'm pulling things up from the archives. This here is a ringtone I made in 2020 called Unify, inspired by a patch from Soundspot's Union called "Big Pants Lead," which I'm using as the chord patch here. For how simple it is, just the chords, a bass and some drums, all pretty basic, this thing is ridiculously catchy IMO. My mom still uses this as her phone's ringtone to this day.
You can get this ringtone for yourself, in iPhone or Android format, at x0box.xyz/uploads/ringtones

Index of /uploads/ringtones/

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#AudioMo day 20: More ringtones! This one was made in March of 2021 and is called On The Move. It was also inspired by a sound, namely the bass patch, which is a modified version of the Phat Funk patch from the Korg Arp Odyssey plug-in. I was playing with it and came up with this bassline. This one has two versions. The original version of it had no arp stabs and no lead. When I was later advised to add those, I made a lite version, which includes the arp stabs but mutes the lead, which you hear first. Then you hear the regular version. Both of these can be found for iOS and Android at x0box.xyz/uploads/ringtones

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Just before the #TactileReading conference, @ChanceyFleet and I took a little stroll through the lively streets of #Amsterdam. I recorded with my Meta glasses while she guided us and captured our commentary, interactions, me almost getting nailed by a bike, and just the overall #Blind travel experience. I cut the whole thing together with Terminal/ffmpeg, added captions, and hosted it. If you have 6 minutes to spare, pop on some headphones and enjoy our adventure! marconius.com/amsterdam/

A Walk Through Amsterdam - Marco Salsiccia

Chancey Fleet and Marco Salsiccia walking through the streets of Amsterdam as blind travelers.
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@menelion I played the clips back in VLC and took note of the times where I wanted to trim the clips, then just used ffmpeg commands in Terminal to output the trimmed sections as their own video files. I write out a list of the order I wanted the clips to be put together, then run another command to turn them all into one final cut based on that text file. I can also add effects, potentially add audio, filters, and more, just need to keep playing with it. works great with TDSR.
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How a humanities background shaped the technical decisions behind the multilingual journey of Raccoon apps. Check out my blog post and stay tuned for updates!

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Global localization: Building a truly international open source app

How a humanities background shaped the technical decisions behind Raccoon’s multilingual journey
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Dangerous #Accessibility Assumptions That Put Everyone at Risk
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Dangerous Accessibility Assumptions That Put Everyone at Risk

Three strips of intersecting yellow and black “warning” tape. Accessibility isn’t an extra feature or a nice-to-have add-on. It’s a foundational requirement...
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Ooo lookie, accessibility is not planned. Lol. As usual. Cause foss is just a toy that no one actually depends on.

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Accessibility with screen readers

We're trying MeshCentral out at work, and as one of the blind staff members who have access, I'd like to ask for some fixes to accessibility issues: When accessing a PC through the Terminal, I cann...
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That's why I'm so angry with leftist woke people and their "degoogle, stop using this, stop using that, blah blah blah!". If it's not accessible, I don't give a flying F about your values and sweet words. And no, I cannot fix every accessibility bug in every project, it's simply impossible. My compassion to you, Devin.
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#AudioMo Day 16: In December of 2013 I visited #Estonia to go and visit @jakobrosin for the first time.
I decided to record as much of the plane-flight from the baggage hold as I could manage, so I set my Olympus LS-100 going, attached some mics to the suitcase straps internally and sent it on it's way.
Here, we have 9 minutes of what I like to call 'Ethereal Suitcase Music' as it wends it's merry way from baggage check-in to the plane.
Listen for the really strange and as yet unidentified noises the recorder captured at points along it's journey.
If you have any ideas what these might be, I'd be very curious. I've been waiting for over 11 years to find out.
#Estonia #audiomo @Jakob Rosin

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It’s funny to watch how with time the collection of local LLMs on my computer shrank to two only: Gemma3:27B and nomic-embed-text. Llama3.2 is pretty much gone, both the text and the vision models. :) I might get a better embedding model if one comes along, but for now nomic-embed-text seems to be doing what I need. Rest is cloud-based.

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IOS 26 is going to make it possible to add ringtones using the share sheet. Tech sites are not hyping this up enough because you still have to create the ringtone, but I know lots of us know how to do that already and just need the easy way to add it to our phone without going through iTunes. And now, approximately 14 years after Apple supposedly untethered the iPhone from the computer, we have it. So now if you go to one of those ringtone sites, or someone texts you an audio file, or you’re handy with Hokusai or some other audio editor for the iPhone, you can make your own ringtones without a billion steps. Like everything else Apple has done in recently years, it’s taken so long for such a basic feature to arrive that it’s hard for me to even be excited about it, but I sure won’t miss blundering my way through iMazing.

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Dear Fedi friends,

By now you might have seen the post announcing the release of my promotional video for the Fediverse. But in case you have boosts turned off, here we go: news.elenarossini.com/fedivers…

I posted about it this morning from my #GoToSocial account because I have a 5000 character limit there. And I had so many people to thank for their help. It really takes a village.

Thank you for all the wonderful feedback so far ❤️

📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it
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Czech-speaking friends, how legit is supraphonline.cz/ for buying FLAC albums?

Supraphonline.cz

Online obchod s českou a zahraniční populární i vážnou hudbou a mluveným slovem (audioknihami) v digitální podobě (MP3) i ve formě fyzických nosičů na CD, LP (vinyl) a DVD. Obsah nabízíme i v jedinečné nejvyšší kvalitě, formátech FLAC a Hi-Res (WAV).
Supraphonline.cz

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Přátelé, kamarádi i nepřátelé a nekamarádi :)

Pokud tvoříte, nebo chcete tvořit obsah na #VHSky a potřebujete se poradit, nebo nám jen doporučit nějakej kanál, kterej ještě nemirrorujem, tak nám @Archos nahodil #Matrix místnost právě pro tyto případy.

Často se mi stává, že mě kontaktujete DM tady na #Fediverse, tohle bude funkčnější, rychlejší a možná někdo zareaguje rychleji, než já :)

matrix.to/#/#vhsky:mxchat.cz

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
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@Milu Ale není problém, když si uděláte účet na mxchatu. Zašleme vám token nutný k registraci. Aplikací pro Matrix je hodně v F-Droidu a není problém pomoci s nastavením. @schmaker @Kipe
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Což o to, to by asi nebyl problém, jen jsem myslela, že by to mohlo jít přes XMPP abych nemusela mít další apku ale asi to zkusim.
Ja jsem i tak s technickou podporou tady na mastodonu spokojena👍 Víceméně zatím jsem na nic nespěchala.
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Accessibility is an area #Mixxx has struggled with for a long time, and as an all-volunteer project we have struggled to recruit devs to address it. If you have a passion for accessibility and are interested in a chance to have a big impact, hit us up.

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Apple at WWDC on accessibility, inclusion - music devs, tune in - CDM Create Digital Music

Inclusion and accessibility are the answer. They're why we're here—and they're a way for developers to support themselves by reaching new audiences.
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Hey y'all! I put the iPadOS 26 beta on my iPad Pro M4 and must say while many general things feel quite allright, there are definitely some areas that are very beta with regards to VoiceOver. Control Center doesn't talk at all, the multitasking control at the top of apps isn't accessible, in Files, none of the file or folder names read, and so far, I haven't found a way to activate the much talked about menu bar in Mail, Notes or any other app. So yeah, unlike previous years, the beta feels like a beta indeed from the getgo. Has any other VoiceOver user experimented with the beta on iPad and found ways to accomplish accessing the menu bar?

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Hi everyone.

I wanted to share something I just finished making… an arrangement of *Kass’s Theme* from **The Legend of Zelda**! 🎶🪶
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it!

\#LegendOfZelda #ZeldaMusic #KassTheme #VideoGameMusic #VGMArrangement #Nintendo #BlindMusician #MusicArrangement #AccessibilityInMusic #GameMusic #MusicianLife #TheLegendOfZelda #BOTW #TearsOfTheKingdom

#nintendo #gamemusic #blindmusician #MusicianLife #legendofzelda #zeldamusic #kasstheme #videogamemusic #vgmarrangement #musicarrangement #accessibilityinmusic #thelegendofzelda #botw #tearsofthekingdom

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GNOME: goes out of its way to pay for accessibility work that no company wants to pay for, regardless all the billions they make

The Register:

> As we have said before, we suspect this disconnect between younger, keener developers who don't know or care about late 20th century user interface standards or accessibility concerns, but who strongly want to junk what they perceive as legacy baggage, are behind the moves to deprecate and remove X11 – which is very much still going ahead.

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So I should be releasing a comprehensive 2 and a half hour Zoom H2 Essential audio tutorial covering all accessibility options plus everything else with in the next week. From recording to IOS control, it should be all there. It will be on YouTube and also available as zipped mp3s. I will also be including links, resources and articles regarding H2E features. Please cut me some slack since this is my first project of this kind so the editing might be a little rough.

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this week I found out that when you start the Debian Linux instaler with speech, and it detects multiple soundcards, it cycles between them and you can press enter to choose the one that actually works. Most installers just pick a random soundcard and send speech through it. Maybe it picks the internal speakers, maybe it picks the digital output that has nothing hooked up to it. If you can't hear your machine, you'll have no idea the installer started, and good luck switching soundcards after that. As far as I know, the Windows installer certainly doesn't have a soundcard selection for narrator.
This would never be a problem with Debian installations because it will just keep cycling through the soundcards until the speech becomes audible. I know we all love to hate on Linux accessibility, but sometimes the thought that goes into the design of the simplest things is really quite impressive. This is also very on-brand for Linux and I'm definitely here for it.
At the time when this happened, I was on a call with Aira and had forgotten to turn up my speakers, so I know the machine displays a "Press enter to select device 1", "Press enter to select device 2..." prommpt, but I can't 100% confirm that the speech follows along. It seems like a safe assumption though, and at some point I'll do a proper test with multiple outputs and make a recording.

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Yep. I discovered that a few years ago. Also discovered, very much by accident, that it will automatically detect a Braille display, because I just happened to have one plugged in, and was very surprised to see it start displaying things.
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@BorrisInABox I learned this from someone else who learned it by accident. Even though Narrator has support for Braille now, it sure doesn't work on the install and setup screens. So Linux wins again.
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If you are blind and have multiple computers, and especially if you live on the edge and don't have a monitor hooked up to one of those computers, having a capture card really is a game changer.
I have a cheap one that I need to replace. But even with that cheap one, I was just able to call Aira from my laptop and select the capture card as my video device, rather than my camera.
Then, I hooked the capture card up to a mini PC that needed an OS reinstall, and the Aira agent was able to read the display output in real time.
From that point, it took us about 30 seconds to get into the boot menu of the mini PC and select the USB drive.
Even without account for Aira, having a way to reliably capture the output of a computer is infinitely useful. All you need is an app that can take a picture or video from that device and interpret it as-needed. That could be an OCR reader, an AI describer like Be My Eyes, or a calling app so you can ask a friend to look at it.
It certainly beats needing to position the camera in front of a screen, and in the case of the mini PC, it saves me from having to set up a screen in the first place.

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@Bruce @jfayre It's a pretty reasonable assumption. Most people just want to reinstall Windows, not change the OS to Linux. But yeah, sadly it's one of those things you still need sighted help for, or you need to just guess.
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@fireborn @ElementalEcho Windows 11 comes with an optional wireless display feature. So you can install that on a laptop, launch the "Wireless Display" app from the start menu, and then on your desktop, press windows+k and connect to your laptop. I did this the other day. Worked perfectly.
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Station names in Copenhagen are getting interesting.

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Fenrir, the screen reader, has some cool new features. It now tries to detect and do progress bar beeping to let you know something is progressing, it has rising tones for numeric progress, e.g. 95% or single pitch tones for non numeric progress, e.g. dd's download progress indicator. It can also automatically resume speech when the prompt returns. So, if you have a long process with a progress indicator, and you want to monitor it but don't want all the chatter, just silence speech until prompt returns with Fenrir+numpad_plus and have beeps for progress with speech returned when the process finishes. Latest tagged version: 2025.06.07.

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it kind of depends on your distro. In Arch, for example, install fenrir or fenrir-git from the AUR, so very simple. In Slint, use speakwith fenrir and you will be switched to it. For other distros, I'm not so sure. In all cases, if you have the python dependencies installed, you can just git clone it, cd to fenrir/src and run sudo ./fenrir.
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Fully E2EE photo sharing social media on DeltaChat, and yes the posts show up in realtime

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Our labrador is naturally extremely vocal. So, we've been trying to teach her to speak on command, which she does somewhat intermittently. I managed to catch some of the sounds today on a recording and they're hilarious.

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@Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺 @Jayson Smith @Nick Giannak III The 25 port requirement is for self hosting #chatmail relay not for using the app. There are apps for other platforms such as deltachat for IOS, deltachat or arcanechat for android.
As for the deltachat-desktop app interface, unfortunatelly it's an electron app. However it's best used with the screen reader switched into focus mode.
I'll try to give you a bit of overview explaining how I am using it.
When I launch deltachat-desktop the focus is placed into a search field. If you alt+tab from its window and return back the focus will move to the chat input area if you have active conversation.
Regardless of which of these is in focus use tab and shift+tab to navigate at this point.
So I'll use the search field as a starting point as if you have no conversations this is the element you will land on after creating or importing your account from the backup.
Tabbing away from the search field you will land on the Scan QR code button. You can activate it to share your code for others to scan or to scan a code from someone else. Also we are all blind here in this conversation so I guess we won't be scanning QR codes, we'll copy and paste invite links that is also supported here. So the QR code dialog has two tabs QR invite code and Scan QR code. These are exposed as buttons to screen readers. If you activate one of these buttons the content in this dialog window changes. If you would like to join the chat you will press Scan QR code here and you will find the Paste button.
I assume QR code or invite links handling is now a bit clearer so I'll continue describing the main window.
When using tab to navigate pressing the tab key while the Scan QR button on the main window is in focus, you will land in the list of conversations. You can use up and down arrow key to navigate, enter key to activate here. Unfortunatelly the items are again exposed as buttons so it might be a bit embarrasing at first.
If you continue navigating with the tab key from the list of conversations you will land on the new conversation button.
If you continue with the tab key you will move from the new conversation button into the active conversation window. The conversation name is presented. Activating the button named after the active conversation will open a dialog window with user profile of your chat partner or profile of a group chat if the active conversation is a group chat indeed. In the profile window you can see last seen info of the chat partner, their signature, their chat handle, a button for sending them a message that is mainly usefull when you are looking at a profile of a group member, and an ability to share the contact with other contacts. There is a profile menu button that displays a context sensitive menu with more actions such as setting your own local display name for the contact.
I'm now done explaining the profile window and imagine we are back in the active conversation view focused on the chat name button.
Using tab key to navigate from here lands on the tabs changing the main conversation content. You can use these to change from conversation to the media.
Then there is a main menu button. In fact it includes conversation specific menu entries such as search in chat, dissapearing messages and others.
Moving forward with the tab key from the main menu button you will land on the message list of the active conversation. Use up and down arrow to navigate here to read the messages. And use applications key or shift+F10 to open a context menu for the selected message. Text messages have no other content but audio messages, messages with reactions or other attachments might have other focusable elements in the tab order. I think this part is pretty self explanatory once you manage to start chatting. One thing other messengers don't have is shared apps. Apps can be posted to the chat and message with the app will have a button to start the app that will then open in a new window. There are various apps made for deltachat and other webxdc capable messengers, such as the shopping list, simple group collaborative editor and similar. I am looking to the future when more screen reader users will adopt this and we can bring some of the fun things we liked to enjoy back in the days on IRC such as playing quiz or card games in the chat. This might be a nice platform for allowing this.
Then there is an attachment button, visually it's to the left of the chat input area, then chat input area it-self, smileys and record voice messages button.
After the record voice message button you will wrap to the top, of the application window landing on the profile chooser. This part needs a bit of a11y love as the profile names are not exposed to screen readers. These have role tab and you can use up and down arrow keys to navigate here. The last item in this list is a create profile button.
Yes, you can have multiple chat profiles if you like. And it's really damn easy to create a new deltachat profile. The most valuable thing on your profile is the list of contacts as you are verified criptographically. Loosing the empty profile is not a problem as you can create a new one whenever you like.
The final destination of this walkthrough through the deltachat-desktop main window is the settings button.

Huh, this turned to be a looong post. I believe it clears a few things up for you.

Thinking more about it perhaps I should report some of the little things such as avoid using button roles for the list items, consider using roving tab index for the tabs so only one of them is focusable at a time to get rid of a bit of confusion to the @Delta Chat github issues.

#chatmail @Delta Chat @Jayson Smith @Nick Giannak III @Mira
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Sorry, mac has no focus mode, only quicknav, that I don't really use much, does not work the same as windows in a way, it auto focuses itself, in youtube for example, I can stop or play the video without having to do anything besides press K.
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I prompted Eleven Labs to create a sound effect with the following: “A joyful jingle that combines the sound of mirrors, crystal glasses, water drops, brushes and aspen trees.”
Among a few choices I got, this one really caught my attention! #AudioMo
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Do you want to learn what it took to implement the latest (and very likely most future proof) API for screen readers to listen to keyboard events? And, heck, why it is even so important? Then, come tomorrow to Flock, and in 11:30, you'll learn all about it. Yes, I'll be having a talk there just about this topic.

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For day 2 of #AudioMo, have a listen in while I use AI to solve a visual problem at work. Audio quality's not the best because I was just using a phone speaker, not the sort of recording I'd sell or anything!
#audiomo

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@Scott @FreakyFwoof it's the Audio-Technica M50xSTS.
It's quite comfortable, if a bit heavy. No inline volume control, which I found a bit odd. the mic has a side-tone thing where you'd expect volume to be, and mutes by virtue of being pushed into an upright position.
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@FreakyFwoof Adjustable side tone would be handy here though. The Corsair headset I'm using when I'm working in the garden only has side tone on or off, and even that much had to be bound to a button using inaccessible software lol.
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@FreakyFwoof @Scott Well there was that one time ...

I got off the train in the rain. I must have been 10, 11 years old. No phone. No announcements of the stops, either, not on my local valleys line. I had to count stops and hope, as a rule. Clearly, as I plodded on and nothing felt familiar, I realised I'd miscounted on this occasion.

So the rain keeps blattering and blustering and I keep walking, there's fences and walls and I hope that soon I'll come to something vaguely familiar. I have 10p for a phone box if I can find one, or i'll just ask the next person I hear.
I pause.
I hear someone, maybe.
I walk a bit further on.
Yes, that does sound like breathing.
"Hello," I exclaim!
"I presume Caerphilly is back the other way? Could you tell me where I am, please?"

The answer was a nay, I could not be told.
I was talking to a horse.

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While DAVx⁵ is a client-server sync tool we often get questions if there is a possibility to sync in server to server. We had a nice talk today with the creator @whynothugo from pimsync who does work on a tool that does exactly that.

Check out the project here if you're interested:

pimsync.whynothugo.nl/

We also added it to our FAQ: davx5.com/faq/synchronization/…

pimsync docs index — pimsync documentation

pimsync.whynothugo.nl
@Hugo 雨果

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To my fellow blind people:
This is the month of AudioMo. If you will be participating and if you're one that benefits from #AltText on photos, take the time to reciprocate when posting your audio.
Let's not have 'one rule for you, another for me' rule going on.
Practice what we preach. If you benefit from alt-text, add it to your audio description. Many people benefit from knowing what the audio is before clicking on it.
In the same way some images are NSFW, some of your audio might not be either. It may be loud, it may be noises of your pets which could cause pets at the other end to go wild and so on.
#AltText

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📣 Liberux NEXX is now live on crowdfunding! 🚀

After months of development and testing, we're introducing the most powerful Linux smartphone: RK3588S, 32 GB RAM, 5G, Debian 13 + GNOME Mobile, and total privacy with hardware killswitches. 🎉

🔼 Now upgraded to 512 GB of storage and European-made.
Support mobile freedom and reserve your unit in the next 30 days:

🔗 igg.me/at/liberux-nexx

#LiberuxNEXX #linuxphones #privacy #opensource

#opensource #privacy #linuxphones #liberuxnexx

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At the end of their first date, a young man takes his favorite girl home. Emboldened by the night, he decides to try for that important first kiss.
With an air of confidence, he leans with his hand against the wall and, smiling, he says to her, "Darling, how 'bout a goodnight kiss?"
Horrified, she replies, "Are you mad? My parents will see us!"
"Oh come on! Who's gonna see us at this hour?"
"No, please. Can you imagine if we get caught?"
"Oh come on, there's nobody around, they're all sleeping!"
"No way. It's just too risky!"
"Oh please, please, I like you so much!!"
"No, no, and no. I like you too, but I just can't!"
"Pleeeeease?..."
Out of the blue, the porch light goes on, and the girl's sister shows up in her pajamas, hair disheveled. In a sleepy voice the sister says: "Dad says to go ahead and give him a kiss. Or I can do it. Or if need be, he'll come down himself and do it. But for crying out loud tell him to take his hand off the intercom button!"

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My outside stream back at my parents' place in North Carolina has been down since last Thursday while work was being done at the house. It's been plugged back in.

This is a pair of cheap microphones a bit outside one of their windows.

In case you care about such things:

stream.borris.me:8888/outside

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Over the past week or so, I've been hacking away at a fun little project. Paperback, my second shot at a cross-platform ebook and document reader. Quinread, the one I wrote while in high school was in Python and didn't use great coding practices, and all the other existing solutions seem unmaintained or don't behave how I want, so in typical me fashion, I'm writing my own. It's written in C++ with wxWidgets, so it'll hopefully be cross-platform, although I've currently only tested on Windows. It's entirely open source, and under the MIT license. I can't make any promises about this project other than to say that I genuinely enjoy working on it and don't see any reason to stop, but it both starts up and loads giant documents incredibly fast. github.com/trypsynth/Paperback…

GitHub - trypsynth/paperback: An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader.

An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperback
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@Quin I will try to build this on linux on weekend.

So far I'm getting this:

Compiler found: /usr/bin/c++
error: in triplet x64-windows-static: Use of Visual Studio's Developer Prompt is unsupported on non-Windows hosts.
Define 'VCPKG_CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME' or 'VCPKG_CHAINLOAD_TOOLCHAIN_FILE' in the triplet file.
-- Running vcpkg install - failed
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